Wooferhound sends along an amusing piece about thieves who got run over by technical knowledge and never knew what hit them. "A Rain Master Eagle-i Irrigation Controller freshly stolen out of a housing evolution just outside of Tucson traveled nearly 80 miles before rescuing itself. The smart controller is now back in place on the wall where it was primarily pinched... In this day and age, being that may look passive like an irrigation controller may not be so passive. The thieves didn't realize they were removing equipment that countenance 2-way car telephone communications via the Internet. Three weeks later, the unexpected happened. The Maintenance Supervisor noticed a signal coming in from the stolen controller. He thought it was kind of odd that it was up and running... Whoever had stolen it had plugged it back in."

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